Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra

Education

Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra

The Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra (RSYO), under the current direction of Christopher Cinquini, has been providing classical orchestral performance and learning opportunities to advanced high school musicians from Berks County and beyond, including Chester, Montgomery, and Lancaster counties. Throughout its nearly 30 year history, hundreds of students have benefited from learning and performing advanced symphonic repertoire with like-minded peers under the guidance of skilled artistic leadership.

The RSYO performs an annual Holiday and spring concert, in addition to appearing with the Reading Symphony Orchestra at concerts throughout the season. The orchestra has traveled and performed in youth musical festivals throughout Virginia Beach, Boston, and Toronto. In 2000, the RSYO performed at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The RSYO has additionally performed abroad with performances in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Prague, Italy, Vienna, and Budapest, and will embark on a performance tour of London in June 2018.

Education

Christopher Cinquini

Christopher Cinquini is currently the Director of Orchestras and music department leader at Boyertown Area Senior High School, a community that has regularly been named to the National Association of Music Merchant’s national list of “Best Communities for Music Education”. In his capacity at Boyertown, he has conducted performance tours abroad in Czech Republic and Austria, as well as to Washington, DC, Boston, and New York City.

Cinquini has performed regularly with the Berks Opera Company in Reading since 2011, both as a violinist and associate conductor, and in 2015, was named Principal Conductor. He has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, and has toured with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and performed with the Berks Sinfonietta, Chester County Pop Orchestra, and across Europe with multiple festival orchestras.

A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, Cinquini received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Music Performance in Orchestral Conducting from West Chester University. He is an active member of the Music Educators Association of Berks County and has previously served as the Vice-President for Orchestras. He is a current member of Pennsylvania Music Educators of America and the National Association for Music Education.

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